Step 2: Do not eat too much fat

Step 3: Finaly

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A healthy diet helps to prevent, or reduce the severity of, diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. A healthy diet may also help to reduce the risk of developing some cancers. Also, a main way of combating obesity and overweight is to eat a healthy diet. This leaflet gives the principles of a healthy diet.

Eat plenty of starchy foods (complex carbohydrates)
Starchy foods such as bread, cereals, potatoes, rice, and pasta, together with fruit and vegetables, should provide the bulk of most meals. Some people wrongly think that starchy foods are 'fattening'. In fact, they contain about half the calories than the same weight of fat. (However, it is easy to add fat to some starchy foods. For example, by adding butter to jacket potatoes or bread, or by adding oil to potatoes to make chips, etc.)

Also, starchy foods often contain a lot of fibre (roughage). When you eat starchy foods, you get a feeling of fullness (satiety) which helps to control appetite. Tips to increase starchy foods include:

For most meals, include generous portions of rice, pasta, baked potatoes, or bread.
For more fibre, choose wholemeal bread. When baking, use at least 1/3 wholemeal flour.
If you have cereals for breakfast, choose porridge, high fibre cereals, or wholemeal cereals (without sugar coating).
Have tea breads, and plain or fruit scones, instead of sugary cakes and biscuits.

Wow. I can't help but to notice this is the only Instructable this person (at the time, a 19 year old young lady) has created, and yet the day it was uploaded, bam! We are all here to learn from one another, but surely we can be a bit more articulate, and a lot less harsh of others in our responses. Instructables take time to create, and for all we know, Losa's first language may not even be English.

Losa, if you are still with us, I appreciate your efforts, and the wonderful Instructable you've created with health in mind. One never knows when even the slightest thing you may have mentioned may leave a lasting impression, leading to someone making healthier choices.

Actually, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, we really need to limit our intake of carbs--even healthy carbs need to be eaten moderately, but refined ones are little short of deadly. It's true that fresh fruit is your best choice as sweets for children, but the bulk of our diet needs to come from vegetables.

You have some good points there. I do not get the fuss about the incorrectness of it though. Of course health does not come served on a plate per se but as the lovely poster says- eat healthy (according to this) and feel great (or at least, a bit better than if you would eat not like this at all).

This is a great thought provoking instructible, thanks losa, so much so I feel provoked to rant a bit..so do with it as you will. Everyone wants their food to 'make' them healthy. And, everyone, it seems, believes there are good foods and bad foods. If you don't keel over after eating a food it is GOOD. (corn syrup, transfats, lard, chocolate, white sugar, alcohol, psta made w white flour) Everything we ingest is dose sensitive. As Shakespere writes: 'the poison is in the dose'. If we would base our eating choices on Michael Pollan's basic: 'eat food. not too much. mostly plants. don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as 'food.' All lives would benefit. I don't know about anyone else, but I like a few oreos occasionally, nothing beats a tamale made w lard, I prefer my pie crust with Crisco but I like my tart shells made with salted butter - mostly I like a pie/tart shell made by someone I'm familiar with....but a eating pattern dependant on them is debilitating. Too much of anything is a problem for our physical, environmental & emotional health. Just eat (purchase, consume) less of whatever you choose. Stop demonizing food, stop complicating your decisions, stop making decisions based on 'nutrition-ism', start eating fresh, plain, colorful, give your buds a chance to clean/wake up. If this is interesting at all, read Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Eric Schossel. Enjoy what you choose.

(Foreword: I'm sorry about this, but this has been getting on my nerves for a while, and you just happen to be the object of my aggression at the moment) YOU CAN'T EAT HEALTHY! Healthy is not something you can buy in a store or make in a pan. You can't consume healthy. You also don't eat healthy foods! Is that steak healthy? Really? Because it looks pretty DEAD to me. And unless that broccoli is growing in the ground, it doesn't look very healthy either. Your HEALTHFUL foods allow you to eat HEALTHILY so that you may have a HEALTHY life. /rant You do seem to have some genuinely good points in here, though. However, eating less fat will not help you lose (not loose) weight, as you state in step 2. Eating fewer calories (unit of energy) than you expend causes you to lose weight (keep in mind that you expend calories just sitting there breathing). Fat just tends to contain a large amount of calories, and it's not especially healthful for other reasons. A small amount is important to your diet, however, so it should not be avoided completely.

Yes, "healthy" as an adverb is not grammatically correct. But users are looking for "How to Eat Healthy," so that's why we (Instructables staff) phrased the question that way. As a fellow grammar stickler, though, I appreciate your concern.

Perhaps you should address your rant to the instructables staff who came up with the question, rather than taking it out on losa. I think the instructable is really well done, and covers some very good points.